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Only on ch 16 and for a lot of reasons I haven’t liked the protagonist at all. I get that he’s freaking out over not being able to get off the island but like, and the misunderstandings but he’s acting way too insane and paranoid to quietly survive a horror story lmaooo

On page 44/45! When he gets surprised, he’s wearing his school uniform but before and after he’s wearing a white shirt only!!!

That SHE has to kill them but like, I feel like they’ll likely kill each other

I really wanted them to be farmer boyfriends but I respect that not everything has to be romantic. I hope they have a long and happy friendship at least

Please give me more cutie kuchisake onna's!!!!!

I’m like kinda pissed about the end but the plot was good the humor was amazing 10/10

Spoilers obviously?

A blacksmith's WIFE was taken by a monster a long time ago during a ritual when a divine being came down from the mountain. [Flashback of woman was in bridal clothing with young protagonist]. The blood of this creature generally turns weapons to rust, so the black smith commits his life's work to creating a weapon that can kill the monster before it rusts. Once he is done, he has the conversation with the glasses guy, but won't show glasses guy the weapon.
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The festival now happens once more: the trail of animal corpse offerings [meant to diver the monster away from the villagers' homes] is laid into the village so that the monster will eventually encounter the blacksmith, but the blacksmith finds that something is amiss and that the glasses guy had set a trap for the blacksmith. My opinion on why? Glasses guy was jealous of the blacksmith who had a lovely wife, and so he killed the wife in vengeance for not choosing him at the first/original ceremony, and planned to kill the blacksmith and offer himself to the monster/divine beast/thing that took the face of the woman to be together with her forever inside the monster.
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Instead, the monster just kills the glasses guy and doesnt eat him because this guy was "not nutritious" he was not a pure person like the animals who were offered. We now see the monster begin to leave this village while the Blacksmith's fate is ambiguous
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Not yet full because glasses guy screwed up its meal trail, the monster is overlooks another city with streets that are well lit. However, the blacksmith appears, barely conscious, and baits the monster back into the mountain with his gong. The narrative explains that "gods are gods because of the power of those who believe so." So originally, the monster as an evil god that had to be appeased, but now the narrative is considering the blacksmith a god because of his determination.
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And so the blacksmith baited the monster back to the shrine on the hill where he eventually cut its head off. As he kills the monster, he sees his wife in it, and knows that he is killing a part of her in killing the monster even though she is innocent [hence the deer motif]
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By morning, the monster is dead and its body is burned in the sunlight, while the special sword he created begins breaking down in the blood, but the stolen face of his wife still remains on the monster's head.
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Feels?
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And after all that hard work and suffering, in modern times, the area the blacksmith worked so hard to protect has been purposely flooded by humans for the sake of the dam. Irony?
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Or alternativley, The monster WAS a good monster and was protecting the village area from flooding and so by killing it, the area eventually was fated to be flooded? also irony

That in the end this was all just a metaphor for the author saying "fuck you" to an abusive ex-girlfriend?

I know Miwako was influencing Murase to like Souichi but got this had me so frustrated and I'm so glad Murase got the end she did. Like, this manga...if I had to pick an example of "femme fatale"

I almost chocked on hot coffee with how freaking cute she looked in her little uniform holding the sword oh my god she so precious and I think I'm becoming one of her slaves fjeiaowjfewa

Big lord of the flies moment here. Sad times.